Good Day Thomas Jefferson Hour podcast listeners and as always thank you for listening.

And come to France.

Jefferson Cultural Tours are still a few places in the big October 20 through 29 Jefferson and France tour. It's going to be just an embarrassment

of riches and beauty and art and music and the great Paris and all of its Jeffersonian touches.

So if you're interested, Jefferson Hour.com, that tour in the winter encampments on Charles Dickens and also on the American Space Program, but all of that by way

of so many things that you can do if you're interested in the world of Thomas Jefferson.

But today, David, our program is about sort of the very personal Jefferson.

Dressing down, so that's what, on the tour, are you going to dress down with your slippers at your ankles?

A bit of egg on your coat?

You know, that's, as you grow older, egg on your coat becomes a kind of inevitability.

No, I'm not going to do that, but you know, remember when you were young and you would get

on an airplane and people would have like jackets and ties on and women would wear dresses?

There was a time in American life

when people dressed for travel and dressed for church

and dressed for going out to dinner.

And today you can go into a really high quality restaurant in New York and see people in their sweats.

It's a different time and so Jefferson was sort of anticipating some of this.

He wanted to prove to everyone, the Federalists particularly at home and the Brits abroad,

that a republic is an unusual system of self-government and it doesn't operate by the same ceremonial

pomposity that exists at Versailles or the Court of St. James in London.

And so he went out of his way,

even though he was himself a very gracious and elegant man,

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